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Marshall Plan
US aid to rebuild Europe, stop communism
United Nations
Global peace organization; Human Rights declaration
NSC-68
Called for massive military buildup
Korean War
Proxy war; Korea split at 38th parallel
Containment
Stop spread of communism
More bang for the buck
Rely on nuclear weapons
Central Intelligence Agency
US spy agency
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
USSR blocked Berlin; US supplied by air
Warsaw Pact
Soviet military alliance
Formosa (Taiwan)
Nationalist China refuge
Chiang Kai-shek
Nationalist Chinese leader
Taft-Hartley Act
Restricted labor unions
House Un-American Activities Committee
Investigated communists
Alger Hiss
Accused Soviet spy
Richard M. Nixon
Anti-communist politician
Rosenbergs
Executed for atomic espionage
Red Scare
Fear of communism in US
Fidel Castro
Communist leader of Cuba
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet leader after Stalin
New Frontier
JFK reform program
Berlin Wall
Barrier dividing East/West Berlin
Massive retaliation
Nuclear response strategy
Brinkmanship
Push to edge of war
Joseph Stalin
Soviet dictator
Yalta & Potsdam
WWII conferences on postwar order
Truman Doctrine
Aid to stop communism
Election of 1948
Truman’s upset victory
Mao Zedong
Chinese communist leader
George F. Kennan
Created containment theory
Domino Theory
Communism spreads country to country
NATO
US-Western military alliance
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI director, anti-communist
Molotov Plan
Soviet aid to Eastern Europe
Eisenhower Doctrine
Aid Middle East vs communism
Fair Deal
Truman domestic reforms
Executive Order 9981
Desegregated military
Hollywood 10/Blacklisting
Banned suspected communists
Whittaker Chambers
Accused Hiss
Pumpkin Papers
Evidence of spying
McCarthyism
False accusations of communism
Checkers Speech
Nixon defends himself
John F. Kennedy
Cold War president
Bay of Pigs
Failed invasion of Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear standoff with USSR
Panmunjom
Korean War armistice site
Suez Canal Crisis
Egypt vs Britain/France/Israel
Mutually Assured Destruction
Nuclear deterrence through total destruction
Baby Boom
Post-WWII population surge
Levittown
Mass-produced suburbs
Sputnik
First satellite (USSR)
World Bank/IMF
Global economic institutions
National Defense Education Act
Funded science/math education
GI Bill
Benefits for veterans (college, housing)
Teenager
New youth consumer group
Kerner Commission
Studied race riots
Polio Vaccine
Ended major disease
Space Program
US-USSR space race
Military-Industrial Complex
Gov + defense industry link
NASA
US space agency
Beats
Counterculture writers
The Other America
Exposed poverty in US
Interstate Highway Act 1956
Built national highways
TV culture
Mass media influence
Kitchen Debate
US vs USSR lifestyle argument
Sunbelt
Growing South/West region
Election of 1960
JFK wins using TV advantage
Executive Order 8802
Banned defense job discrimination
Dixiecrat
Pro-segregation Democrats
Brown v. Board (1954)
Ended school segregation
Title VII
Banned job discrimination
Black Panther Party
Militant Black group
Letter from Birmingham Jail
MLK defends protest
SNCC
Student civil rights group
Malcolm X
Black nationalist leader
Freedom Rides
Challenged segregation in transport
Stokely Carmichael
Promoted Black Power
Nation of Islam
Black separatist movement
Greensboro Sit-ins
Lunch counter protests
Robert Kennedy
Supported civil rights
Immigration Act 1965
Ended quotas
Democratic Convention 1968
Protests and unrest
SCLC
MLK’s organization
La Raza Unida
Latino political movement
Brown II
Ordered desegregation 'with all deliberate speed'
Rosa Parks
Sparked bus boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Major protest against segregation
I Have a Dream
MLK speech
Double V Campaign
Victory abroad and at home
Civil Rights Act 1964
Banned segregation
March on Washington
Civil rights rally
Voting Rights Act 1965
Protected Black voting
De jure segregation
Legal segregation
De facto segregation
Informal segregation
Black Power
Racial pride and self-defense
CORE
Civil rights organization
Strom Thurmond
Segregationist politician
Wounded Knee
Native American protest
Earl Warren
Chief Justice (civil rights rulings)
Thurgood Marshall
First Black Supreme Court justice
Separate but Equal
Plessy doctrine